4.4.4. Disabling/Enabling Quota Enforcement
Enforcement of quotas can be disabled for a file system without clearing the limits set for all users and groups. Enforcement can also be enabled. Disabling and enabling of quota enforcement is done by changing a tunable parameter,
quota_enforce, with the gfs_tool command. The quota_enforce parameter must be disabled or enabled on each node where quota enforcement should be disabled/enabled. Each time the file system is mounted, enforcement is enabled by default. (Disabling is not persistent across unmounts.)
Usage
gfs_tool settune MountPoint quota_enforce {0|1}
MountPoint- Specifies the GFS file system to which the actions apply.
quota_enforce {0|1}- 0 = disabled1 = enabled
Comments
A value of 0 disables enforcement. Enforcement can be enabled by running the command with a value of 1 (instead of 0) as the final command line parameter. Even when GFS is not enforcing quotas, it still keeps track of the file-system usage for all users and groups so that quota-usage information does not require rebuilding after re-enabling quotas.
Examples
This example disables quota enforcement on file system
/gfs.
gfs_tool settune /gfs quota_enforce 0
This example enables quota enforcement on file system
/gfs.
gfs_tool settune /gfs quota_enforce 1
